"What is the goal of checkbook science research? It's to sell products. It's not to expand knowledge and it's not to benefit humanity."

"In my mind the worst junk science of all is... the subtle but incredibly pervasive tactic of saying that science that is marginally better than the currently accepted science must immediately trump the thing that it's marginally better than... All that that's saying really is that... we should be indifferent between errors that cause marginal increases in human pain and suffering and death and errors...[that] cause marginal increases in somebody's economic losses."

"Cadmium is cited frequently as a chemical which shows hormesis because in a study in rats, there was a decrease in testicular tumors. However, what's not mentioned is that in the same study in rats, at those low doses, there was an increase in prostate tumors. Cadmium is a known human carcinogen....So hormesis may be viewed as 'Let's trade tumor sites.'"

"I think the denial of the fossil fuel green house effect is primarily because of the enormous stake that civilization and industry in general has in fossil fuel energy and the fact that we don't really have a solution to this problem yet."